Land art and site specific sculpture - land art uses
the environment and its scale as its material. Concrete art is expressed in
material itself with which the artist introduces her non-representational objective.
Public art can be viewed and accessed by observers.

My sculpture, and also my
land
art are based on constructive principles. In the south-west of Holland
I have designed and made a
highway bridge. As a maker of art in the public domain, I am a sculptor
of urban art. In the early nineties I installed a twenty meter long
stainless steel sculpture, which I called
Opening the Arctic Circle, in Kemijärvi, in Finnish Lapland; according
to my knowledge this is the largest public sculpture north of the Polar
Circle. In the city of Vaasa, in the west of Finland, I've installed
a monumental red steel sculpture,
Veera. For the Finnish city
Kajaani he designed a
park - the
Suvanto Puisto - which was never executed. The plans and representational
drawings are in the collection of the
Kajaani Taide Museo (Kajaani
Art Museum).

The
symposium, East West Forum was a confrontation between six Japanese
and six Dutch sculptors; as the spokesman of the Dutch Sculptors' Association
I was co-organizer of this manifestation in Dordrecht, the Netherlands
from 1982 to 1984.

The academic approach
towards specifying different
forms of art is by way of subdivision in terms of art history -
terms laid down in the course of the study of art history - such as
periods, movements, styles or various other fields into which art has
been categorized.

But one can also take a step backward and look
at only the forms in which art, and in this case my own sculpture, manifests
itself. I have no preference for any particular material, technique
or form of presentation. This results in a variety of topics into which
the work can be subdivided. Although I call all my works sculpture,
and in fact they are, it is sometimes much more clear to classify these
works under different - more obvious, down to earth - categories -
forms in which his sculpture manifests
itself:

In the vicinity of my birthplace, Dordrecht, I
have created and organized the Open Air Museum
OPAM.
I present many of my colleagues on
StIvesNetselected-art
where also I have a home page. My cv/résumé
is an extensive curriculum vitæ with links to it's many items.

The cities
pages present my
site specific-public
sculptures and projects in various municipalities in Finland, NL
and other countries where my work has been installed in the public space.
Some of my landscape works
have the maze as inspiration. One
maze
is in the Dutch village of Hardinxveld Giessendam.

One of my
sculptures for a roundabout can
be visited on his domain about the subject of art and roundabouts - rotonde is a monumental roundabout sculpture for
Heemskerk.

During the sixties I
made water colors
and was mentioned as one of Holland's foremost water colorists in
the Pieter Scheen Lexicon of Dutch artists born between 1750 and 1950.
This was very flattering, because I am certain that there are other
water colorists much better than I am.